'Spotify Dogfood' was released in July of last year as a set of patches to the Spotify APK that remove ads from the free Spotify subscription. The app previously offered more premium features, but the other functionality was removed about a month ago. It was fairly popular for a while, but Spotify caught wind of the project and has just taken down the GitHub repository and download links with DMCA claims.

The claim to GitHub also calls for the removal of every fork of Spotify Dogfood. Since the project was open-source, there may be continued development by others. There is at least one other fork, named 'Spotify Dogfood Core,' but I'm unsure if it's still being updated or not. Regardless, if you don't want ads in your Spotify app, it's probably easier to just pay for a subscription.

Comments

aviran

Sad to hear that

Light

What do you expect? You're being a leech. And it's no more the hipster XDA App only about a dozen Android nerds install, it's being shared and installed between many many people, including non-techies. It's robably the most mainstream thing XDA has ever produced. This is what happens when things like this get popular. That's only fair, Spotify is already in a rough spot financially, and this + threatening account termination is a good way to get people who do this to pay for Premium.

Wilton Daniel Pinto

people who do this will likely just uninstall the app and move towards other altrrnaltern

Light

Which Spotify will not have to pay for. I think it really depends: older users with a job and responsibilities and the means to pay will probably just take the hit and jump on Premium. Students will either buy a family plan with their friends or go look at Deezer pro mods etc.

By the way, in the last redesign Spotify Free has been getting a little laxer - Daily Mix works exactly like it would on Premium, same thing for Spotify Running and there are 15 special playlists that work like they would in Premium

MrTheenD

Lucky patcher still does it for me so meh..

David Markx

People who use this will just mod the clean play store APK themselves or just go back to Fildo, Deezloader or Youtube.

Light

Which is still better for Spotify, since they aren't using up bandwith and server resources for no return. Uptime is expensive, and a losing company just doesn't have the $$$ to keep paying for users who don't pay back. Heck, seeing every other music service I'm even surprised Spotify's FREE plan is still running, let alone cracked apps.

AlVy

Sad to see idiots like you stealing music.

Suicide_Note

Glad to see it got taken down.

Firmino

Why so many downvotes?

Suicide_Note

Huh?

cooldude5500

why tho

Suicide_Note

Because it's a BS app that exists solely so people who are too cheap to pay for a subscription can get premium features for free.

EXTI

For most ppl, want to pay but can't. cuz its not available to them.

Suicide_Note

Ah, yes. The old 'It's not available to me therefore I'll steal it' excuse. Pathetic.

EXTI

Wow, I did not believe i will meet a saint. good to know u don't do sin or steal or watch pirate movies/ tv show.

Suicide_Note

I don't. I pay for the movies/shows i chose to watch.

Prime

They are also sending out warning emails and blocking access if you use a patched apk that removes the adverts.

Nejc

Then maybe they should stop being **** and stop ignoring 100s of countries just because they don't have 100 mil people.

Björn Lundén

Licensing is difficult though, sadly.

matteventu

Believe me, it's not their fault if Spotify is not available in your country.

You can blame each country's laws on copyright and licence management.

Nejc

Wonder why Deezer, Apple Music and many other services are allowed then.

You're wrong btw, it has nothing with laws.

the9thlion

"It had nothing to do with laws."

Sure. And when the apple falls from the tree it has nothing to do with gravity, right? 🙄

Edit: if Deezer, Apple Music, and many others are available in your particular country then why don't you just use those services? Spotify isn't that special imo.

Nejc

Cause I already used Spotify for years and I have all **** set

the9thlion

Sounds to me like you're just trying to **** justify your stealing their service.

MrEeeaddict

how the hell is it STEALING if you literally can't give any amount of money to them?

the9thlion

That's easy. It's stealing because you're illegally taking their product without paying and without viewing their ads. If you can't legally pay for Spotify in your country, use "Deezer, Apple Music, and many others." It's not that hard of a concept actually.

MrEeeaddict

The service isn't available in the country, why not tell the chinese citizens they're dicks for pirating tv shows that are illegal in china while you're at it?

the9thlion

Then use another service. Spotify doesn't have exclusive rights to music you can listen to any song with any other device LEGALLY smh.

MrEeeaddict

buzz off with your "smh" THERE IS NO major service available in my country. For fun lets pretend Spotify isn't available here and no other service has some songs they do and the artist won't sell it directly. WTF should I do when there is no "legal" way to listen to a song.

Should I just give up on music because nobody cares about my market?

the9thlion

If there really are no legal options in your countrycount I guess I don't see an issue with it, sorry. The original person I replied to though even admitted to having several legal alternatives in her country but she still chose to pirate Spotify, which is what I take issue with.

MrEeeaddict

In that case your point is very reasonable. Sorry if I sounded combative!

Daniel Bradford

Does YouTube Red not with in your country? I thought it was worldwide

Christopher Schreuder

You understand we, as consumers, are allowed to have CHOICE. The fact that songs are available on other streaming services has nothing to do with it. Unless of course you want to use YouTube to stream your songs, I mean tbh it has the best selection so you don’t need Deezer, Apple Music or SoundCloud at all.

the9thlion

Yes I understand that. Is it wrong that I'm against one of those choices being piracy when practical, legal alternatives exist?

Andrew T. Merrymaker

The definition of stealing is deprivation, but at any rate I think it's stupid you even care - mind your own business

the9thlion

You can't just make up or simplify definitions as it suits you, Andrew. Merriam Webster defines stealing (intransitive verb) as "to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully." And at any rate, you are depriving people of funds when you subvert ads or paywalls, so your little mental justification doesn't work regardless.

"Mind your own business."

This is the effing internet; the moment you or any other commenter posts "their business" on public discussion boards like this, it becomes the public's business.
—And if I'm wrong about that, then mind your own you hypocrite.

Rohan

So google, Apple, amazon, tidal and 10s of local streaming services can work the laws but the one company who essentially invented the market can’t. Yeah.

kkruglov

in order to get to the new market you have to conclude an agreement with the music rights companies for the new country/region. it's not one company, it's not 10 companies, it's much much much more.

basically you need to negotiate with local music copyright holders, because it's stupid to enter the market without local music, you need local playlists/artists to be available in the catalogue, you need partnership (operators), you need establish your company subunit in the country in legal way and so on. it's not a click of a button.

deezer is available in more countries because it's their tactic (i've been using it for two years), i don't think it really helps them, but for example, in russia i even heard their ads on the radio, which is really unusual for us.

Light

Just use those lol. You're just looking for an excuse not to pay. Get that wallet out.

Rohan

I already do. I have Google play music on my account plus a family account with apple music. Also I pay for Amazon prime which has Amazon music. I'm just stating that defending Spotify just doesn't make sense. And at this point i and many others just wouldn't care to switch to Spotify anyways so by not launching here now Spotify has already lost many people who'd pay because they already have created their libraries on apple and Google's services.

william svendsen

Norway don't have 100mil people, we have 5.2mil but we still have Spotify

Nejc

2.6x times more than my country and they love ignoring.

trashcanbin

maybe you are just not worthy, pirate

Nejc

If I was pirate, I wouldn't use ADify

Gobelet

To be fair, Spotify is Swedish, and service companies, more often than not, cover the whole of Scandinavia almost as a single market. Look at HBO, Viasat, Canal Digital...

the9thlion

If it were up to Spotify throug be available worldwide, but the legal ramifications around licensing 40+ million songs for legal playback is no simple task.

Yeah they sent out an email threatening account termination. Dogfood CORE is even blacklisted. Seems Spotify can tell which accounts are linked to the cracked apps.

Light

Something like that happened to me. I used to use an App like this, and at some point it gave me a popup whish said something along the lines of "Sorry, you're unable to play this file. Please download a legitimate version of Spotify from Google Play to do this."

Later that day, I had the official Spotify App installed and Premium activated. It costs more this way, but at least I don't have to deal with this shit and I don't make Spotify to support artists while leeching.

Joris Griffioen

As an artist with music on Spotify: thank you!

dejjem

@Joris I was one of those that are guilty to have used it in the past, never was that much into music but hey free non-advert music bring it on. The end result - a few months after I got a subscription... why? I wanted to have Spotify access via echo and stop this updating apk nonsense and Spotify becomes kind of routine in my life - ie: I was hooked (and not only me but even my mother has started using it via her echo). If it wasn't for this app I would not have a spotify subscription nowadays. So while I don't condone such actions the implications are wider then you realize.

hk

Oh, so that explains why you're acting like a little bitch on the comments above this one. You've got music on Spotify so this is mainly about money for you.

dubs

Yeah. People with jobs like to get paid for their work. Maybe you should try it out sometime

hk

If your "job" was good then you wouldn't need to start complaining in the comments that you're missing out on a few cents.

dubs

People with "jobs" that are good aren't worried about having to steal services that cost a few bucks a month.

hk

You're right. My steady income allows me to pay for Spotify premium with no difficulties. You, on the other hand, don't have a steady income and you prey on the tiny percentage of people who are not able to afford a premium subscription and continue to bitch over a few cents. It's pathetic really.

Stanimir

1 year and a half premium member for 3333 song per device wtf just die spotify

Captain_Invisible

I haven't gotten anything. Good for me, I guess.

Łukasz Ordon

It's similar to what happened with YouTube Background Playback Xposed module...
Sources are still up and working but module is not available on official repo anymore

Also XDA marked YTBP module as warez... weird they didn't do the same with this one

Bewear

You can still flash a custom APK, though.

Łukasz Ordon

If you're talking about the module then yes, I know this because they are all on "someones" GDrive ;)

Also compiling your own apk from source :P

Tiuri Elvander

That is some name, person who provided this tip

Andrew T. Merrymaker

Pathetic isn't it. What a wanker!

Karan Shah

I'll play ball - I had this app installed and still have. Don't really use it since I switched to Prime music which launched in my country. Don't get me wrong - I don't mind paying but if it's not available I pirate it to try it out.

Joris Griffioen

Bullshit, you can try Spotify for free and if you want to know what the premium experience is like it's 10 bucks for a month. (there's even a shit load of deals for 3 months on the cheap)

There's plenty of places where you might make this argument about piracy, this isn't one.

Mahamed Osama

Spotify isn't available everywhere, In my country I can't pay for Spotify or GPM. We only have apple music which has a shitty app so we use a patched version of Spotify that basically identify the phone as a tablet. until Spotify launches officially in my country

I will wager he is from India. 10 bucks is a lot to us man (Around 650 INR)! Apple is providing the service at 1/5th the cost and GPM at 1/6th.

Joris Griffioen

"Apple is providing the service at 1/5th the cost and GPM at 1/6th" ... so use those? How does this comparison make it okay to rip off a company and artists?

Ryan Cavitt

If they don't want people ripping off artists, then they should release the app in that country. Spotify isn't available in India.

AbhiD

Because we don't want to use the trash apple music app on Android. I was an Apple music premium subscriber but decided to opt out as i couldn't handle the app.
And i have amazon music subscription as well btw. And there is google play music in india as well.
If they can all do it, what's stopping Spotify from doing so ?
I personally love Spotify's playlists and only want to use it. So what choice do i have ? The day it launches in india i would be among the 1st ones to pay for premium

Subhodeep Panja

Hey, I'm not in favor of pirating Spotify. I used the dogfood version only because I hated the ads and trying to get an actual subscription would cost a ton. I don't even use any of the premium features like extreme audio quality or downloads (which can't be modded anyway). I would stop using it anyway and shift to Apple music but the algorithms they use to suggest songs and the sheer volume of playlists are the only reason I keep using it. Spotify is way superior in the experience to the other two but then again Apple has a better regional library for India, so I guess in a few days I would stop using Spotify anyway!

No one

I agree with you but I assume he's living in India and Spotify isn't available here. Most of the Spotify users here sideload the app, activate by VPNs and use it. I think you know while sideloading how fairly easy it is to get attracted to these kinds of forks.

Nejc

Spoitfy is not avaliable in most countires in the world.

They keep ignoring many European countries, so **** them, I'm not gonna listen to their overly loud ads.

I'll keep using hosts.txt on Windows because Spotify ads are the worst.

Karan Shah

I'm in india and it's not available here. I don't mind paying for my music as long as it's reasonable buddy. I do pay for prime anyway :)

Chaldon Pretorius

As someone who has gone to the length of a virtual credit card simply so that I can actually pay Spotify, and still see that option fail, I can assure you price is likely not the issue here.

Spotify's delay in launching in more countries is a huge inconvenience to those of us who legitimately want it.

Ryan Cavitt

Price is not the issue, availability is, Spotify isn't available in every country so the patched APK is the only way they can go. So your argument is invalid.

Bohemia

true they should launch their service in other countries too so that we don't have to download Spotify Premium APK 2018 :D

Hey, I don't think you know what 1 dollar is worth in rupees. (It's worth 75 rupees.)
Now if you do the math, 750 per month is not a good optiono especially when you compare it to play music which is offered at 89 rupees per month.

Yeah yeah I know you'll ask me to try out play music but I prefer Spotify.

Joris Griffioen

No I won't ask you to try out anything. I'm asking you not to steal something when you disagree with it's pricing. Especially when there are valid alternatives.

You prefer Spotify but you can't afford it? Tough cookies. You're not entitled to their service at *your* whim.

StankyChikin

I do like the icon though.

Bewear

APK plz soon backanswer /s

HanZie

Lol, still works for me.
Its this or download full albums.
And if thats all impossible ill just listen to free radio stations.
Im not gonna pay to have them fucking corporations all the money.
But ill gladly pay a musician directly. Then (s)he actually sees the money.

So till Spotify pays the musicians properly, fuck them!

Rodrigo Gomes da Silva

So, with that pretext, in meantime you funk even more musicians, not giving the chance of they get neither the low amount that corporations pay.

Btw: You can buy albums, online and even physical ones to give money to artists

I'm from a country that has shitty copyright laws, and Spotify is not available and probably won't be in next few years, but im still using premium for family so I can share the bill with friends. I use entropay virtual card to pay the subscription.

Rob

What country? :-)

AbhiD

They just sent out warning email to me too since i am using a patched mod of Spotify. But what else can i do? Spotify isn't officially launched in India, so there is no other way for me to get premium service.
Infact i had premium subscription of Apple Music few months back but decided to opt out as apple music app on Android is Trash.
The day Spotify launches in India i would be amongst the first ones to get their premium subscription but they have to launch it here first.
What's funny is that Apple Music, Google Play Music, Amazon Music have all launched officially in India but world's largest music streaming service spotify hasn't.
And then they cry they aren't making profits.

MrSonicBoom

Maybe use GPM or Amazon music then if you're willing to pay for Spotify instead of stealing their service?

AbhiD

Maybe you didn't even read my comment. I like spotify, their playlists, android app interface.
I already have Amazon Music subscription and AM has poor AQ and very less songs. And similarly GPM has poor recommendations so i don't use that either.

Daniel Bradford

So now I'm going to pay for YouTube Red, which is so much more useful and the same price as Spotify Premium

Jesús Cuenca

i will do when play music don suck :/

Daniel Bradford

Well, use YouTube music then, which doesn't suck :)

Cheeseman_Nope

Lucky you, where I live there is no Yt Red. And also 10 bucks a month is ~2500 Huf. So yep, it's a bit expensive, I'm not lucky enough to live in a country, where 10 bucks a month is nothing...
Yet several ppl here still blames us....

⋘ ѕριкєѕραz ⋙

The CORE APK still works for me, also, the person who wrote this is an idiot because the CORE wasn't a "fork", it was the original rebranded with all of the extra functionality that was "removed" from the main one. I wish I had forked it as a private repo before this happned.

I won't blame the people who are angry over this because they NEED this because Spotify is literally not available in their countries *legally*.

Nathan J

The premium APK has been around a lot longer than that. Let's see... I first used it in the fall of 2015, when I still had an HTC phone. I didn't really know what Spotify was all about. After using the cracked premium for like a week, I got premium. Had it for over 2 years now, been pretty happy. Especially on iPhone where the music app is kinda shit... I just use Spotify and it's great. When I go back to Android, I probably won't even mess with Poweramp. I just need Spotify. On iOS I'm using a crappy little no frills music player for the stuff Spotify doesn't support. MIght use Poweramp for that. Or something else. Point is it doesn't matter much.

I wonder if people who have that premium APK are getting the letters, too. I imagine they are. Nothing in my inbox, but I haven't used it in 2 and a half years.

If Spotify isn't in your country, don't steal music. Give their competitor some money. Their biggest rival is Apple Music, but I suspect they aren't too popular around here. I won't vouch for them. I like Spotify. I can't endorse supporting Google while YouTube is throttling me over a dispute with my ISP, though. Much as I like Google otherwise. But that's not a bad option.

Superman

Some of these people be acting like they never used/downloaded some cracked shit. 🙄

Note: Song skipping still is limited (no workaround yet for that)
I also recommend to backup your playlists with exportify just in case spotify decides to shut down your account for using this workaround.

Jonny Warbucks

I just uninstalled ,39 version and installed .33 version and works fine for me

FAB115

I don't mind the ads. I just want to chose what to listen to .-.

Jermaine M

If this was 2003, ok, I get it, use a mod and don't pay the $10 a month, but I cannot believe it is 2018 and people are still looking for shortcuts. Spotify works so hard to make the music of the world available to as many people as possible, just so they could open doors for artist to get exposure and at least "some" compensation. $10 is NOTHING for what Spotify gives you, heck, I remember when subscriptions were $20 a month back when napster and rhapsody were key players with a sad excuse for a library, and when Realplayer was a still a thing, no one could afford those services back then, so they pirated and cracked as much as possible. It really is sad how selfish people still are. This is a human problem, not a supply & demand one, if it's not yet available in your country, then use Last.FM and Youtube and download your songs like it's 2008, Youtube is the largest library of music on the web, take advantage of them, not Spotify.

A2theC

Blocking ads =/= stealing, ALL arguments are invalid.
The service streams for free, plus ads.
Proxy use is not illegal. Not paying artists is.
Ad blockers are not illegal. Please do fuck off.

PS: Piracy is distributing goods for profit or without license or consent.
Such as downloading the music separate from the app (MP3/AAC) and sharing.
Even downloading music from an online provider is legal via "fair use" AKA personal use.

Theft is the taking and removing of property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it,
ie: downloading Spotify's server data (music, credit cards, email & passwords) and DELETING it afterwards.

Modded apps don't provide much, if any extra features to even warrant their use other than unblocking countries and ad blocking, such as offline use (not available).
You can easily use the 'official' app from wherever you get it, use an ad blocker via app/proxy/router and profit the exact same.

Legal is a word used poorly, in many regards.
However, 'in good moral conscience' is a whole different story.
These service providers should pay the creators of the content AT LEAST half of the profit after operating expenses (servers, coding, not CEO bonuses).
It comes down to corporate greed, not legality.
I agree with artists pulling their catalogs from providers that jilt them.
These services are the ones ripping off the content creators. http://bit.ly/2DmL6k0

Now for those who will say I 'advocate piracy' you obviously are biased and didn't read anything I wrote with any rationale.
Personally I pay whatever I can, however I can, often as I can directly to the artist via concerts/swag/CDs kinda profit the artist but not much as they merely get $2-3 from each $15-20 CD/Vinyl. Not taking into account producers and managers. I'd be surprised if they make anything off those $5 bin CDs. lol

I highly support the 'try before you buy' method. With or without trials.
For those who can't use/pay for these services, this is the only way until Spotify corrects their error in not providing where there is demand.
I've paid for streaming services, I've used modded means.
I continue to dabble in each of the sort.
I pay for what I like, and I do not for what I don't, which I discontinue (duh) use.

The internet is a global community, it's about time humanity stop acting like idiotic <20th century barbarians and establish universal global policies as some smaller unions have.
This planet has people on it, doesn't matter what color or geolocation, people.
...let's make war because I don't like some flag colors or I think Crimea is part of my backyard. (sarcasm)